Obituaries

Nicholas Ortiz

Nicholas Ortiz

Oct 12, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Nicholas "Nick" L. Ortiz, Jr., age 61, died Monday, October 12, 2009 at the Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City, Kansas. He was born October 9, 1948 in Garden City, Kansas the son of Nicholas and Mary Louise Hernandez Ortiz. He graduated from Garden City High School and from Garden City Community College where he received...

Jack Buxton

Jack Buxton

Oct 11, 2009

Jack A. Buxton, age 62, passed away on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at his home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on October 24, 1946 in Lamar, Colorado, the son of Wilbur James and Thelma Maurine Wilson Buxton. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1972 moving from Limon, Colorado, he worked as a lineman for Wheatland Electric for...

Carolyn Johnson

Carolyn Johnson

Oct 8, 2009

Carolyn M. Johnson, age 48, passed away on Thursday, October 8, 2009 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on October 11, 1960 in Scott City, Kansas, the daughter of Van L. and Lois Bullard Buckner. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, she was a Certified Nurses Assistant at Park Lane Nursing Home and...

Shirley Rhoads

Shirley Rhoads

Oct 5, 2009

Garden City Shirley C. Rhoads, age 88, died Monday, October 5, 2009 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on October 25, 1920 in Brookfield, Missouri, the daughter of William and Ada Weaver Cook. A resident of Garden City since 1998 moving from Amarillo, Texas she had been an executive secretary for a network...

Freddie Bontrager

Freddie Bontrager

Oct 4, 2009

Palmetto, Florida Freddie D. Bontrager, age 89, formerly of Garden City died Sunday, October 4, 2009 at his home in Palmetto, Florida. He was born December 6, 1919 in Hutchinson, Kansas, the son of Daniel M. & Polly Miller Bontrager. A resident of Palmetto, FL since 2000 moving from Western Kansas he had been a farmer. He was a member...

Cathy Payne

Cathy Payne

Oct 3, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Cathy Renee Payne, age 49, died Saturday, October 3, 2009, at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born November 25, 1959 in Hutchinson, Kansas the daughter of David G. and June M. Christenson Wright. A resident of Garden City since 1995 moving from Manhattan, Kansas, she was a homemaker. She was a member...

Christopher Glazier

Christopher Glazier

Oct 3, 2009

Christopher A. Glazier, age 20, passed away on Saturday, October 3, 2009 in Wichita County, Kansas. He was born on June 3, 1989 in Tribune, Kansas, the son of Joe D. & Shawna M. Paxman Glazier. Christopher was a lifetime resident of Tribune, Kansas and was a clerk for Eagle Travel Stop in Tribune, Kansas. Christopher's surviving family members include...

Emma Neeland

Emma Neeland

Oct 2, 2009

Emma Jane Harkness Neeland passed away at age 76 on October 2, 2009 at Pikes Peak Hospice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was born on October 15, 1932 in Scott County, Kansas, the daughter of Brannon Burl Harkness and Reba Katherine (Walker) Harkness. A resident of Colorado Springs since 1993 she was a homemaker and an active volunteer. Among her...

Marvin Turley

Marvin Turley

Sep 27, 2009

Marvin F. Turley, age 75, passed away on Sunday, September 27, 2009 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on September 29, 1933 in Syracuse, Kansas, the son of Uless Francis and Nora Marie Smith Turley. Marvin was a resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1936, moving from Greeley County, Kansas and was a carpenter....

Duane Stoppel

Duane Stoppel

Sep 26, 2009

Duane A. Stoppel, age 85, passed away on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on July 17, 1924 in Wilson, Kansas, the son of Chris & Clara Fry Stoppel Sr. Duane was a United States Army Veteran of World War II. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1929 moving...

Judy Maggard

Judy Maggard

Sep 26, 2009

Judy Darlene Maggard, age 65, passed away on Saturday, September 26, 2009 at her home in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on May 21, 1944 in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Clarence and Beatrice York Moler. A lifetime resident of Garden City, Kansas, she was a Insurance Secretary. Judy was a member of the VFW of Garden City,...

Mary Haines

Mary Haines

Sep 24, 2009

Mary I. "Jeannie" Haines, age 79, passed away on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at the Greeley County Medical Center in Tribune, Kansas. Jeannie was born March 29, 1930 at Cassville, Missouri, the daughter of Elmon Wesley & Florence Elizabeth Davis Turner. She was a homemaker and a bookkeeper and had been a Leoti resident since 1950 moving from Garden City,...

Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith

Sep 24, 2009

Sarah Elizabeth Smith, age 102, passed away on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at Greeley County Medical Center in Tribune, Kansas. Elizabeth was born September 24, 1907 in Butler, Missouri, the daughter of Arthur P. & May Brock Geneva. She was a homemaker and farm wife and had been a Greeley County resident since 1958 moving from Wellington, Kansas where they...

Wallace Bascue

Wallace Bascue

Sep 22, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Wallace Dalton Bascue, age 70, died Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at the Homestead Health & Rehabilitation Center in Garden City, Kansas. He was born August 11, 1939 in Ozark, Arkansas the son of Tobie S. and Pearl Self Bascue. He had been a Garden City resident since 1959 moving from Ozark, Arkansas and from 1963-1965, he served...

Alberta Radnor

Alberta Radnor

Sep 22, 2009

Alberta Bell (Matheny) Radnor, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on November 1, 1924 four miles southeast of Wallace, Kansas, the daughter of William Earl and Flora Bell (Haddock) Matheny. A lifetime resident of Logan and Scott County, Kansas, she assisted her husband Raymond with...

E. Floyd

E. Floyd

Sep 21, 2009

E. Grace Floyd, age 74, passed away on Monday, September 21, 2009 at the Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas. Grace was born June 2, 1935 at Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, the daughter of William Howard & Dorothy Elvira Counterman Proctor. She was a homemaker and had been a Greeley County resident since 1963 moving from Dodge City, Kansas. Grace was...

Arthur Huseman

Arthur Huseman

Sep 20, 2009

Arthur A. Huseman, age 97, passed away on Sunday, September 20, 2009 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on April 4, 1912 in Ellsworth County, Kansas, the son of William and Christianna Winkler Huseman. A resident of Scott County, Kansas since 1947 moving from Ellsworth County, Kansas, he was a family man, farmer, rancher...

Larry Massey

Larry Massey

Sep 16, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Larry N. Massey, age 62, died Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on January 27, 1947 in La Junta, Colorado, the son of Horace and Ruby Walsh Massey. A resident of Garden City since 1984 moving from Pueblo, Colorado he was a custodian at the Jennie Wilson...

Ermina Rupp

Ermina Rupp

Sep 15, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Ermina R. Rupp, age 87, died Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at the Homestead Health & Rehabilitation Center in Garden City, Kansas. She was born May 10, 1922 in Liebenthal, Kansas the daughter of Martin & Dorothy Herman Brungardt. A Garden City resident for most of her life, having moved from Ellis County, Kansas, she had worked at...

Thomas Schemm

Thomas Schemm

Sep 11, 2009

Tribune, Kansas Thomas Eugene Schemm, age 69, passed away on Friday, September 11, 2009 at his home in Tribune, Kansas. Tom was born April 8, 1940 in Wakeeney, Kansas the son of Paul George & Katherine Pastor Schemm. He was a 1958 graduate of Trego Community High School and had served his country from 1959 through 1963 as a submariner...